Chandigarh, Sept. 13 -- The Sector-3 police have arrested a couple for allegedly abandoning the body of their two-month-old daughter in the bushes near Sector-9.

The accused, identified as Arvind Mukhia and his wife Runa, were produced in a local court and later released on bail.

According to police, the couple claimed that on the night of September 8, they were returning home from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) when the baby died while being fed. Out of fear, they left her body in the bushes in Sector-9.

The baby was referred from Government Multi Specialty Hospital, Sector 16, and was admitted to the Advanced Pediatrics Centre, PGIMER, on September 7. According to PGIMER, the parents took the b...